Locked out of his friend's car on a chilly day, Chris McShane decides to take a short walk. Along the way, he finds two discarded items in good shape. Innocently, he picks them up, only to find himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Detective Brad Mason, of the Washington County Police Department, is asking lots of questions, and McShane has answers but no alibi. At least not until his best bro, Garret Douglass, steps in to defend him. But Mason is tops in his field, and he will be unrelenting until he solves the puzzle of who murdered Sara Ludwig.